Box Hill

“Mars-Jones’ trim, poignant novel humanizes the intricacies of a dominant-submissive gay relationship…. As the narrator says, “What I saw of his life was about excitement, about magic,” a spell that will fall on readers, too.” – Kirkus (starred)“Mars-Jones’s prose is exceptionally nimble, dry, humorously restrained, very English, with a little Nabokovian velvet too. He can describe more or less anything and make it interesting.” – James Wood - London Review of Books“Mars-Jones is a writer of wonderful originality and wit.” – The Times (London)“Dry, accurate, tragic.” – Edmund White“I very much enjoyed Box Hill. It is a characteristic Mars-Jones mixture of the shocking, the endearing, the funny, and the sad, with an unforgettable narrator. The sociological detail is as ever acutely enduring.” – Margaret Drabble

Adam Mars-Jones’ collection of stories Lantern Lecture won a 1982 Somerset Maugham Award, and he has since published a debut novel, Pilcrow (2008) and a second novel, Cedilla (2011). Other books include Noriko Smiling (2011, focused on Yasujiro Ozu), his memoir, Kid Gloves (2015), and a selection of his film writings, Second Sight (2019). He writes book reviews for the Observer and the London Review of Books.